Migration

Today in class we talked more about migration and immigration. We all went on our computers and looked up what the percentage of immigrants there are in the world. We had to find it on an official site because we wanted to find if it was 3% or 9% from what sites we found they all were around 3%. After that we talked about Trump and the wall and illegal immigrants and what the classes opinions were. For Pro-Trump there were ten students, for Anti-Trump there were three students, and for no opinion there were six students. We also listened to a podcast that talked a little about the Holocaust and how when it was first starting 900 people noticed what was happening and decided to come on a boat to America and ask to be protected by America and America said no and they went to several other countries and asked and they all said no and eventually they were caught and put into Concentration camps and most of them were killed.

Class today

Today in class we got a handout that was about the same thing that we talked about yesterday with the powerpoint except the handout that we got to today had more information in it, it went deeper into explaining the terms. So for about fifteen minutes we underlined what we recognized from powerpoint on the handout. After we did that as a class we looked at what we had in our notes from the powerpoint and compared it to the handout. For the most part the handout had more information. We found that the powerpoint had more information about Mobility, for Circulation the handout had more information, for Ravenstein's "laws" the handout had more information, and for the rest that we found the handout had more information. Except for one thing we found both of the resources had different information for it, it was about the world's people that are international migrants, the powerpoint said 9%, and the handout said 3% but we don't know which is correct.

Migration

Today in class we started a new unit which is migration some notes that we took were....

• Mobility is the most generalized term that refers to all types of movements
• Short-Term and repetitive acts of mobility are referred to as circulation
• A permanent move to a new location constructed migration 
• Ravensteins "laws" for the distance that migrates typically move
• Most migrations relocate a short distance and remain within the same country 
• Long distance migrations to other countries read for [major centers of economic activity] CITIES 
• Migration can be divided onto two categories 

1. Internation migration -Permanent move from one country to another 

• Voluntary
• Forced 

1. Internation Migration- Permanent move within the same country

• Interrogional
• Intraregional 
• Approximately 9 percent of the worlds people are international migrates 
• Global pattern reflects migration tendencies from developing countries to developed countries 
• Net-Out Migration- Asia. Latin America, and Africa
• Net-In migration- North America, Europe, and Oceania
• U.S. has more foreign born residents then any other country approximately 43 million as of 2010- growing by 1 million annually 
• Three main eras of immigration in the U.S. 
• Colonial settlement in Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 
• Mass European migration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 
• Asia and Latin American integration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries 

Quiz

Today in class we took a short quiz on the video that we watched yesterday that was about the population and migration which had Hans Rosling in it. The questions were the same as the question that were on the worksheet that we got yesterday that went along with the video. I think that it was really easy because we went over it in class yesterday to make sure we had the right question, last night for my blog I put the questions and answers in for my blog, and we went over it in class today right before we took the quiz so everything that was on it I had already memorized. The quiz was only ten questions just like the paper and the only ones that I got confused on were the ones about the x- axis and the y- axis because it wasn't in the same order as the paper so it kind of threw me off but all I had to do was picture the graph from the video. After I took the quiz Mr. Schick let us do our blogs for tonight because he knew that we would probably forget considering we have off for the rest of the week and it is due at midnight tonight.

Video

Today in class we watched a video and answered ten questions that went with the video. The video was about population and migration. The question were...

1. One of the videos we watched in class today featured Hans Rosling, who teaches a college course. What is the name of this course? Global Health
2. Hans Rosling constructed a chart which has two separate lines off axis. What did the X- taxis measure? Income, wealth per person
3. What did the Y- axis measure? Life expectancy, Life span
4. What description did Hans Rosling give to the area that was in the lower, left- hand side of the chart? Poor and Sick
5. What description did Hans Rosling give to the area that was in the upper, right- hand side of the chart? Rich and Healthy
6. In the Demographic Transition chart, Birth Rate, Death Rate, and Total Population were given over time, in five stages. Give the stage where a country would be experiencing a high birth rate and a rapidly falling death rate. Stage 2
7. When was the United States in Stage One? Early 1800s
8. Name a country that is currently in Stage Five? Japan
9. In this stage, a country would be experiencing a stable or slow RNI due to a high birth rate and a high death rate. Stage 1
10. The Industrial Revolution began in the late 1700s in this nation. Great Britain

Some notes that I took were...

• A couple hundred years ago every country in the world's life expectancy was under 40 years old

Notes

Today in class we talked about, Why is global population increasing?, and some notes that we took today were...

Components of Population Growth

• Natural Increase
• About 82 million people are added to the population of the world annually
• More than 95 percent of the natural increase is clustered in developing countries 

Components of Population Growth

• Fertility 
• Total Fertility Rate 
• Measure also used by geographers tp measure the number of births in a society 
• Defined as the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years (15-49)
• TFR for world is 2.5 
• TFR exceeds 5 in sub saharan in Africa, while 2 or less in nearly all European countries 

Components of Population Growth

• Mortality 
• Infant Mortality Rate(IMR)
• Measure used by geographers to better understand death rates in a society 
• defined as the annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age, compared with total live births 
• Usually expressed per 1,000 births rather than a percentage 
• IMR is 5 in developed countries and 80 in sub saharan Africa

Summary of Spatial Patterns

Developed countries 

• Lower rates of... 
• Natural Increase
• Crude Birth 
• Total fertility 
• Infant Mortality 

Developing Countries 

• Higher rates of
• Natural Increase
• Crude Birth 
• Total fertility 
• Infant Mortality

Going over the test

Today in class we went over the test that we took I think that it was last Thursday. I got an eighty one percent which I think is pretty good because I was confused with this unit so I was very relieved that I passed. I got all of the answers right for the ones that you got to go on your computer and use the website cia.gov.  I got most of the definitions right except for Crude Birth Rate and Maternal Mortality Rate, I got the one about rising or falling wrong, the one about Net Migration Rate, life expectancy, Total Fertility rate, one of the push forces wrong, but I got all if the Population pyramids right, and I got both of the bonus questions wrong. But I now know what I did wrong and I understand it.

Population

Today in class we did not start a new unit we just went further into the unit we were already in which is population. We took some notes which are.....

Key issues

1. Where is the world distributed?
2. Why is global population increasing?
3. Why does population growth vary among regions?
4. Why do some regions face health threats?

Population Concentrations

• 2/3 of the world's inhabitations are clustered in regions
• East Asia 
• South Asia 
• Southeast Asia 
• Europe
• Site and situation of population clusters 
• Low-lying areas with fertile soil and temperate climate
• Near an ocean or near a river with easy access to an ocean

Sparsely Populated Regions 

• Humans avoid clustering in certain physical environments 
• Dry lands
• Wet lands 
• High lands 
• Places considered too harsh for occupancy have diminished over time

Population Density 

• Density can be computed in up to three ways for a place 

1. Arithmetic Density
2. Physiological Density
3. Agricultural Density 

Components of population Growth 

• Geographers measure population change in a country or the world as a whole by using three measures
• Crude Birth Rate(CBR)
• Crude Death Rate(CDR)
• Natural Increase Rate(NIR)

Test today

Today in class we took a test. I do not think that I did that well on it but I do not think that I did horrible either so we will see. The first part of the test I think was the easiest because we got to use our computers and go on the website cia.gov and look for the answers on that website and the questions were relatively easy and they were easy to understand. For the definitions part of the test it was somewhat easy because it was kind of just using your common sense if you did not know the exact answer. For the population pyramids part I think that it was easy and hard at the same time, it was easy because we worked on pyramids for so long, but it was hard because I still am a little confused about them. Overall the test went okay but it could have been better.

Review for the test tomorrow

Today in class we reviewed for a test that we are just know being told about but it is okay because I think that I am somewhat prepared for the test or quiz I am not so sure what it is. Mr. Schick told us that the first fifteen questions we will be allowed to use our computers and go on the website www.cia.gov which will be very useful. We went over a few of the questions that will be on the test and looked them up on the website www.cia.gov and discussed the answers as a class. After that we kind of went off top and talked about how Mr. Schick produced and was a stage director or something  like that and he has met a ton of famous people like Morgan Freeman, and John Candy I think, and a ton of other people. After we talked about that we went back to reviewing for the test or quiz.

TedEd

Today in class we watched a video about pyramid populations on a website called TedEd, which the video was made for adults and really smart people because it had big words and we haven't learned all that the video was saying. We also watched a video on TedEd about a super model, but it wasn't related to the lesson,  and what she was that because of her looks she is treated a different way then others, like one story that she told was about one time her and her friend were driving and I think it was that they ran a red light or something like that and got pulled over but all they had to say was "I'm sorry officer" and got out of the ticket. Where as someone else like someone of different color and was young and a male would have gone through a lot worse after doing the same thing that she and her friend did.

Population Pyramids part 2

Today in class we talked more about population pyramids. We looked at different pyramids for different cities in the United States and we talked about why we think that the population and the shape is like the way it is. For example for Manhattan, New York it was mostly populated in the 2 twenties and thirties, it is like that because Manhattan is the place for business, fashion, and getting your name known. We also looked at the whole world and we looked at what is like and what it will look like in the future. We also looked at different countries population pyramid and looked at the past and the future. When we saw the different pyramids we said if it was the Christmas tree, the box, or the cup then we talked about why we thought it was the it was.